Activism

A popular course taught by Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts at Harvard Divinity School explores the concept of forgiveness and asks when we're obligated to forgive, what forgiveness should look like, and what conditions should be attached to it.

Alumni Spotlight: The Rev. Bernadette Hickman-Maynard, AB ’02, EdM ’03, MDiv ’07 Harvard Divinity School welcomed our new Associate Dean for Ministry Studies, the Rev. Teddy Hickman-Maynard, to campus for the start of the 2021 academic year. Throughout...

"If we lose these religions, it would be a big loss for the world,” says HDS Professor of African Religious Traditions Jacob Olupona. “We would have lost an entire civilisation.”

When Harvard Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin delivers Harvard Divinity School’s 2022 Convocation address on September 1, she will encourage students to “take up the mantle of their predecessors who fought for equity and justice.” Brown-Nagin...

Through a photo documentation project in the complex area of the South Hebron Hills in Area C of the West Bank, two Harvard Divinity School fellows uncovered layered Jewish identities of activists in solidarity with Palestinians, including within...

In the year since starting Pride in the Pews, Don Abram, MDiv '19, has interviewed people from across the country, ages 22 to 85, each with a unique relationship with the Black church. Driven by a deep love for both the Gospel and the Black church’s...

Gaily Seavey, MDiv '90, will participate in a forum "The Racial Climate in Gloucester: What Lies Ahead," for an upcoming observance for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

The Rev. Willie Bodrick II, MDiv '14, senior pastor at the Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury, stood at the pulpit Sunday and recalled the first time he met Michelle Wu a decade ago. The two were graduate students at Harvard—Wu in law school and Bodrick at...

“This view, advanced by numerous theologians in one way or another, is the notion that the evils and sufferings we experience are part of a plan that yields a greater final good," says David Lamberth, HDS Professor of Philosophy and Theology.

As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, this beloved annual multireligious service honors the interplay of holy darkness and light in the world’s religious traditions, including choral and instrumental music, readings by HDS students, the ritual...